Life
Rolle was born in Ambert, Basse-Auvergne. He moved from Ambert to Paris in 1675, and he was admitted to the Académie Royale des Sciences in 1685. Rolle was promoted to a salaried position in the Academy, a pensionnaire géometre, in 1699. This was a distinguished post because of the 70 members of the Academy, only 20 were paid. He had then already been given a pension by Jean-Baptiste Colbert after he solved one of Jacques Ozanam's problems. Rolle died in Paris. No portrait of him is known.
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